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Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow

Taking Care - Callista Buchen

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield

Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz

Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy

East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha

Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”  - Molly McManus

They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson

The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities -  Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.

The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library

A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver

Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks

Working Class History

Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson

In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman

Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb

Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation  - Silvia Federici

Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) -  Jane Yeon and Audris Park

Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman

Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra

R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker

The Journey - Mary Oliver

The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg

What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan

Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn’t be there - Julia Shervington

Barbara Hammer - The 90’s (experimental shorts)

Remembering Stormé - The Lesbian Woman Of Color Who Incited The Stonewall Revolution

Ozamu Tezuka Documentary

Sheroes: The Lesbian Stonewall

38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark

‘It has made me want to live’: public support for lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall over banned book revealed

This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s

Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised - Dale Lately

Prolife IS the extremist viewpoint. - Taryn De Vere

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

1984. The trials of Gay’s the Word. - Colin Clews

Cambridge’s appropriation of the working class makes for bitter social division

Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson

Glass Labyrinth - Shuji Terayama (1979)

“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It” Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. - Jessica Pressier

Top 10 books about women and the sea - Charlotte Runchie

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter? A thank you would be nice, says Worst Witch author - Anita Singh and Helen Brown

Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty - Regan Penaluna

Why Women Are Shamed for Having Body Hair: On #everydaylookism and the normalization of the hairless body. - Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland

Dante’s Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter - Ken Russell (1967) Part 1 | Part 2

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Dr. Angela Davis / also available as a free audiobook on YouTube

The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde

Anti-Racism Resources for White People: Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

Human Being/Insan (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1993)

Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973)

CEREALS | Mayram Yusupova | 1982

Prairie House (1991) dir. Julie Dash

Julie Enszer: “We Couldn’t Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print Them Ourselves - Catherine Halley

A Burst of Light and Other Essays - Audre Lorde

Palestine Film Institute (one free film weekly)

Black British Women You Aren’t Taught in School (compiled by inamahair) Part 1 | Part 2

Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture - Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spiritual Food’

Part 1: Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change - Emma Marris

Part 2: Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert

(Important information for researchers: Some material from the Spare Rib magazines on the Journal Archives site has been redacted until the Library is able to secure further copyright permissions.)

How to Repair a Hole in a Sock with Darning

Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes - Kate Mulherin et al.

What the Caves are Trying to Tell Us - Sam Kriss

Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine

If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? - James Baldwin

“Scenes of an Indelicate Character”: The Medical “Treatment” of Victorian Women - Mary Poovey

The Curse of Quon Gwon (1917) dir. Marion E. Wong

Black Panthers White Lies | Curtis Austin | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat - Gina Kolata

How to Sew a Button - for Absolute BEGINNERS

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Solidarity Cinema

Where to watch classic films directed by women online and for free - Rafaella Britto

Revolution At Point Zero by Silvia Federici (Audiobook by Lil Guillotine)

Colonising the Body: State Medicine And Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India (Chapter 5) - David Arnold

“Racism, Birth Control And Reproductive Rights” (From Woman, Race and Class) - Dr. Angela Davis

Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist, at work in 1952 (video)

You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. - Kate Murphy

The History and Troubling Present of the “Pansexual” Label - Kravitz M.

A Man and his Hoe

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big - Jane Healey on secret corridors and impossible floorplans

May 23rd, 1988. Section 28. Lesbians invade BBC. - Colin Clews

Complete issues of The Gay Left 1975-80

A Decade of World-Class Masterclasses Online - Scottish Documentary Institute

5 Steps to Illustrating a Repeat Pattern by Hand - Julia Rothman

The Archivettes: A Sinister Wisdom Conversation with Megan Rossman (video)

‘I am not a pretty woman. And that’s never felt like more of a crime than in 2020.’ - Katie Scoble

Girls are cruelest to themselves: The Glass Essay - Anne Carson

Social media can be bad for our self-image. Could marking photos as edited help? - Paulina Jayne Isaac

Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson

Joan Nestle in Conversation with Cheryl Clarke @ Sinister Wisdom (video)

Decreation - Anne Carson

Ceramic Review Masterclasses videos)

Gay Pride 1979- Inside Story (Documentary)

15 Songs About AIDS - Sal Cinquemani

“I Call It Blaxidermy”: Pamela Council on Their Art and Aesthetic - Clarity Haynes

Revenant Journal Archives: Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the Supernatural, the Uncanny and the Weird.

The Tale of the Fox - Wladyslaw Starewicz (1937)

How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger - Michaeleen Doucleff and Jane Greenhalgh

Paper Books Can’t Be Shut Off from Afar - Maria Bustillos

‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the latest to include the iconic first period scene. Why don’t we ever see normal menstruation on TV? - Caroline Kitchener

HoneyHands Magazine

Some Women’s Work: Domestic Work, Class, Race, Heteropatriarchy, and the Limits of [U.S.] Legal Reform - Terri Nilliasca

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality. - Mychel Denzel Smith

Possession (1981)

Have You Seen This Bird: The Emotional and Ecological Ramifications of an Obsessive Kinship with Frank, a Neighbourhood Scrub-Jay. - Elisabeth Nicula

Painting Ghosts: Running into the cold, restorative waves with artist Nicole Eisenman. - Andrew Durbin

The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo - Bess Lovejoy

Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

The beautiful language of bookplates - Alexandra Hills

Why a Disabled Artist Collective Was What I Needed All Along - Riva Lehrer

The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins - Roberta Smith

The unbearable daintiness of women who eat with men. - Kate Handley

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guin

‘A fair chance for girls’: The law of periodicity and the Viavi system - Lalita Kaplish

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Julia Kristeva

The sickness in the wellness industry - Gwendolyn Smith

‘Unsettling the men’: the representation of transgressive female desire in Daughter of Darkness (Lance Comfort, 1948) - Paul Mazey

Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses - Christine Ro

How The New Yorker Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap - Ryu Spaeth

A Symbol of a Lost Homeland - Yasmeen Abdel Majeed

Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men - Bethan Bell

and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!

musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope